The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

A local museum remembers one of the worst acts of anti-Chinese violence in American history.

16,500-acre ranch filled with American heritage, geological wonders, and a giant pile of tires is the crown jewel of an intriguing tug-of-war.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.

This mural changes every few years.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.